Example sentences for: curiosity

How can you use “curiosity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most statues in Buddhist temples are molded of clay with a thin overlay of gold, so these giant jade works attract curiosity seekers as well as worshippers.

  • Stoppard's genius lies in his ability to excite our intellectual curiosity and, in a stroke, to satisfy it.

  • None of these rather charming locutions is represented orthographically (in government documents and the like), yet one prevalent curiosity has always struck me, namely the dropping of the final g from participles.

  • Several commentators think that Jones may win her appeal, though all admit that any trial will occur after Clinton's presidency (Will; Taylor; Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington ). An upcoming Supreme Court case, which will clarify legal principles in the Jones case, piques the curiosity of a few court-watchers (Taylor; Blankley; Sam Donaldson, This Week ). Gigot ( NewsHour ) thinks Jones' advisers are inept, while Totenberg believes they are more interested in serving right-wing conspirators than her interests.

  • And even if IQ has not declined on a mass scale (and I suspect that it has), there is a point at which lack of curiosity and sheer ignorance are indistinguishable from a deficiency of intelligence.


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